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- BX3YT & OD., ^ap^?\p^^^^ ^ ANDERSON C. H., S. C, THURSDAY"MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1871.. VOLUME VH?NO. 17. For tJie Anderson Intcliigwcer, ' "Set not, I will Ho so to him oa he hath done.to mo; I 'W?T ro rod tho mm according to his wort." r ' Soy not bo, for thou hast u^der^aken, more than r.hon canst do. ft would require omnipo? tence and omniscience united to cast the same stone and inflict the same injury. Though thy aim be unerring, thou aSictest the babe that hangeth to- his mother. If I have lost an eye, it is not right that the State should lose two.? Scarcely two guns explode with' the same force. Revenge is retaliation in rough measure; a grain of justice mixed with many, pounds of wx3th. It rageth like a blind Nemesis worry? ing to find her victim, and it is well, if she do not pull down the house upon that are in it?. One hurt avenged maketh two crimes; and -the latter is worse than the former. For the avenger puttcth his hand behind the ephod end taketh a consecrated weapon. "Vengeance! is mine," "/will repay," sounds from, high au-j thority, and retribution h a prerogative well lodged no lower. For it is easier to do mischief Shan to repair it It is easier to mend a broken sunbeam than to mend an injustice. Revenge J| and defence differ in character, in time and in object. The object of defence is protection; of revenge, satisfac tion. Defence opposeth a pres ent evil ,* revenge hunteth a past evil. Defence,' standeth on his own ground; revenge inyad,eth j pother's territory. He that keepeth at home, j keepeth his home; hut he that forages on God's creation, leave th his home to foragers. A mas-1 tiff fighteth well in his own yard, but abroad his courage, faileth. When right and CQriscieuce j stand by a man, he is strong; but passion,) though he urgeth to deeds of valor, is a poor] supporter. Therefore thar ,avenger , walkefhj forth from home proudly, but returneth with braises.' My neighbor's arm is as strong asj mine, and it needs an arm of great strength to overpower a lion in his den; therefore, most men choose to retaliate with words rather than deeds. And with these to stand far off from i the mark, as the kid upon the housetop rallied j bis enemy on the ground below him. He who undertakes to rectify his wrongs, needs well? remember Ahab's proverb: "Let not him that putteth on his armor boast as he that putteth it off." The beasts have no revenge, and there? fore no king; else they would devour and con? sume one another. But man hath a king and conscience; and because of conscience, a victo? ry, humbleth a great man more than a defeat Abraham fell into gloom after he had conquered the kings; and the victorious;Casar, looking over the slain of tho battle field, said : "They would have it so." He that is wronged hath the advantage of him that wrongeth him; for j the: great Settlement is not yet passed. There-1 fore, Retaliation pleadeth cloqen tly his cause; pat Forbearance .comet h after and searcheth Him out. D.E.F. .- _-... : : The Peabody Fund.?Dr. Barns Sear's fifth report of his labors, as General Agent of the j Peabody Fund, has been published. The Doc- j tor expresses himself as well pleased and great? ly encouraged. In a few general remarks on the progress of the workj ete, Dr. S. says { - " Wh in it is remembered that it ha 3 been our plan from the beginning to act in concert with the State authorities whenever possible, "it will readily be seen in what delicate circumstances S- are placed, and what wisdom and pr?den?, necessary for the suecesj^? performance ,l auties, and yet It "may justly oe" affifme that.oiir work bs& not bse^- impeded ph the contrary, to the.credit of the people be it said, mewhas been accomplished1 in this 'tha4r<iB any previous year. Nothing can boiioregrate Suit&n such eySdenee of the progress o#i*fb Ucom^on on subject of educa^on.aoji^f a Just appreciation bfwa ?n?s by those T^om ve seek to benefit. whatever diff jrences of opinion: there may be on other points, there js & general agreement on this, that the safety and prosperity of a State depend largelyupon the means of infraction enjoyed by the people. Conflicting views may he entertained in respect to the expediency cf a particular system of j public sehools, but none are found to exist, in Stay respectable body of men, in regard to the faecessitv of some effective system." Two hundred and thirteen towns, districts and institutions were assisted by the distribu? tion of $108,900, apportioned among the States as follows: ? Virginia, $18,800; North Carolina, $9,850; South Carolina, $6 000: Georgia, $8,800; Ala? bama, $5,750; Florida, $7,300; Mississippi, $4, 1W ; Louisiana, $15,900; Arkansas, 59450; Tennessee, $22,000; West Virginia, $12,750. . The annual interests now amounUs to $120, ?00, all of which is judiciously expended, except $10,000 held for extraordinary emergen? cies. When the Mississippi bonds become available the annual interest will he $175,000. A Voice Fbom the Dead.?-The following Buching episode comes from France: "The Other day a young soldier, Who had just re? turned from Germany, was surrounded in a Street, in Endome, by a sympathetic group, who listened with emotion to the story of his cap? ture, imprisonment, arid subsequent return.? They were the more pressing iri their attentions ?s the young man had been reported dead, and the lack of all information about him seemed to confirm the report. Suddenly a woman with inelancholy steps and downcast visage, emerged from one of the dwelling houses. The joy and laughter of the group seemed to mock her, for she had lost, she thought, her only ;on in the {leid of battle. As soon as ho sav her, the youth made his way through the crowd which pressed around him, and advanced with buoy? ant steps and radiant countenance toward the woman, who raised her head, and after a glance at the youth'b figure, emaciated from long suf? fering," and his features, which rccallea one who lived no longer, she turned, staggered, and would have fallen if the young man had not caught her in his arms, and whispered in.tones of endearment: 'Mother, Mother! it is I, your son, do you not know me?' But the kind mother did not answer her son, for she had ex? pired. Happiness had kiiled her." ? A lady in Wyoming complains that not? withstanding the female sulFrage law, hundreds of her sex in that territory refuse to vote unless coaxed by good-looking men. ? Female agitation is going beyond civil suffrage. As the winter ball season approach? es, she insists on her right to bare arms. ? Every heart has its secret sorrow, which the world knows not; and oftentimes wo call a man cold when he is only sad. < Proclamation by the President. WAflmrayoN, D. CL October 17. Tt?rmmw$&l&m*?m by toe "President, in regard to the enforcement oj the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, was issued this eVenfag: Whereas, by an .^ct of Congress entitled "An Aqtfo.^6$ce the.'provision of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for "other purposes," approved the 20th day of April. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, power is given to the President of the United States, when in his judgment the public safety Blutll require it, to. suspend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpits in any State or part pf a State, whenever combinations and conspiracies exist in such .State or part of a State for the purpose of de? priving any portion or class of the people of such State of the rights, privileges, immunities apd protection named in the Constitution of the United States, and secured by the Act of Congress aforesaid, and whenever such combi? nations and conspiracies do so obstruct and hinder the execution of the laws of any such' State -and of the United States as to .deprive tlfte pettpTq"aforesaid'of ihe' rights,"?rlvifeges, immunities and protection aforesaid, and do, oppose and obstruct the laws of the United States and their due execution, and impede and obstruct the'due course of justice under "the same; and whenever such combinations shall be organized and armed, and so numerous and powerful as to be able by any violence either to.overthrow or set at defiance the constituted authorities of said State and of the United States within said State, and whenever by rea? son of said causes the conviction of such of? fenders and the preservation of the public peace shall become in such State or part of a State impracticable; and whereas such unlawful combinations and conspiracies for the purposes aforesaid are declared by the Act of Congress aforesaid,to be' rebellion against the Govern? ment of the United States; and whereas by said" Act pf Congress it is provided that before the President shall suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpiq he shall first have made proclamation commanding such insurgents to disperse; aud whereas on the 12th day of the present month of October, the President of the United ?tat?s dfi/issde basjprocla'matiop, re$i- j ting therein,' among* other thing*, - that- such : combinations and conspiracies did then exist' in the Counties of Spartauburg, York, Marion,; Cheater, Laurens; Newberry. Fairfield, Lancas? ter and Chesterfield, in the State of South Giro-; linaj and commanding thereby all persons com-; prising such unlawful combinations and con-; soiracies, to disperse and retire peacefully to their homes within five days from the date thereof, and to deliver either to the Marshal of the United States for. the district of South Caro-1 lina, or to any of his deputies, or to any mili? tary officer of the United States within sucli Counties, all arms,-ammunition, uniforms, dis fuisesand other means and implements used, ept, possessed pr con trolled by them for car? rying out the unlawful purposes for which the said.combinatiops and conspiracies are organ? ized; arid;wbere^'tjbe. insurgents engaged in such unlawful' combinations and conspiracies FffV>rr fho nmintiaa._flfnrpgfdrirh^ve not dis? persed and retired peacefully to their respective homes, and have not delivered to the Marshal of the United States, or to any of his deputies, or to any military officer of the United States within said Counties, all arms, ammunition, uniforms, disguises and other means and imple? ments used, kept, possessed or controlled by them for carrying out the unlawful purposes for which the combinations and conspiracies are organized, as commanded by the said proc? lamation, but do still persist in the unlawful combinations and conspiracies aforesaid: Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the United States and the Act of Congress aforesaid, do hereby declare that, in my judgment, the public safety especially requires that the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus be suspended, to the end that such rebellion may be overthrown, and do hereby suspend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus within the Counties of Spartan burg, York, Marion, Chester, Laurens, New berry, Fairfield, Lancaster and Chesterfield, in said State of South Carolina, in respect to all Sersons arrested by the Marshal of the United tates, for the said district of South Carolina, or by any of his deputies, or by any military officer of tho United States, or by any soldier or citizen acting under the orders of said Mar? shal, deputy, or such military officer within any one of said Counties, charged with viola? tion of the Act of Congress aforesaid, during the continuance of such rebellion. ^ In witne8s^whwrebf I'have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 17th day of October, in the year of our Lord 1871, and of the independence of the Uni ? ted Siates pi America the ninety-sixth. U. S. GRANT. By the President :'' : ' : 1 1 J. q. Bancroft Davis, Acting Seeretary of State. ? rr. ...... f .*). m ft ? The Result in Ohio.?There are some facts in connection with the late canvass in Ohio and its {resu lts to the Democratic party, which are worth remembering, and they are thus stated by j the Cincinnati Enquirer: "Two years ago, the majority against Mr. Pendleton, for Governor, was in the neighborhood of eight thousand. Last year, when some fifteen thousand negro votes were added to the poll, the majority was aboutjseventeen thousand. In the canvass this year, we were unfortunately crippled by the sickness of our candidate for Governor, who was unable to fulfill his appointments and give that personal attention to them, which is usual? ly expected from him. The administration made the most extraordinary exertions in or? der to secure the re-election of Senator Sherman. It put its thousands of office-holders to work. ' It made its demand upon the national banks and the manufacturing corporations for subsidies, all of which were liberally answered. Its cab? inet officers patrolled the State ; and every ef? fort which a thorough organization, long victo? rious, could make, was resorted to for success. The Democracy had none of these appliances, so important in securing a general attendance at the polls, in their favor. They are without patronage, and, to a very considerable extent, their organization was defective. That wc should have failed to redeem the State, can hardly be a surprise but to the most sanguine. No true Democrat will be the least discouraged by this untoward result, but will continue to labor in the good cause, confident that the so? ber second thought will only be more emphatic by its being delayed." ? A newly invented fly paper in Titusvillo is covered with nitro-glycerinc, glue and molas? ses. The flies, attracted by the molasses, alight, and are stuck last by the glue. Should any get away, they proceed to rub their b-g.s to? gether in ectasy, when the friction of their own shins causes the nitro-glycerinc adhering to their feet and limbs to explode, blowing them to atoms. Secret Political Organizations, i The Wilmington Journal expresses onr views on this subject in the annexed pointed article: We have omitted no- proper occasion to ex ?ress our hostility to secret political associations, hey are repugnant to the theory of Republi? can government, and at variance with every idea of Bocial br individual independence and security. They can only have their origin in a demoralized condition of public feeling, and the popular sentiment which develops, origi? nates or tolerates them is, invariably, the result of a corresponding governmental decadence. The Union League owed its existence to a ?bigoted, fanatical and infuriated temper, and was the offspring of that tyrannical policy of Lincoln ana Seward, which broke down all the safeguards of personal liberty, which allowed no independence of thought, and which could "ring a little bell" at the imperial centre and order the arrest and incarceration, of a citizen in California, on the shores of the Pacific?a system which has gone on and on, in its des? potic strides, until it has culminated in that legislation of the Congress of the United States, which places life and limb at the mercy of in? famous spies and detectives, of malignant par? tisan judges and of packed juries. The Ku Kiux organization, whose invasion of law and of individual rights are so greatly to be depreca? ted and deplored, could never have found lodg? ment in any community or country, not afflict? ed with gigantic social evils, the consequence i of perverted, partial and oppressive govern-' ment. It is proper, when brought face to face with these social and political disorders, to trace them to their fountain-head. Physical disease or mental distemperaraent cannot be thoroughly and successfully cured, except by going to the \ root of the malady and removing the cause.? Had there been no purpose to prescribe men for opinion's sake and to organize a reign of: gilitical terrorism there had been no League, ad there been no League, the offspring of governmental tyranny, which, like all other unchecked disorders, took on more malignant Ehases with the progress of time, there could ave been no Ku Klux. Had the League not banded ignorant dupes into midnight conspira? cy against intelligence, virtue and property; had it not been converted into a snelter for thieves and plunderers; had it not have licensed arson, assassination and rape; had it not have, turned lose upon the impoverished and humil? iated community of the South a horde of de? praved carpet-bag adventurers to cat out their scanty substance, and fill public stations with imbecility, corruption and malignity, and had not all this been done under the sanction of the dominant and ruling power in the land, there had never been a counter organization or any concerted attempt to go outside of the laws of the country. We denounce all such associa? tions?they should be put down and throttled; but, after all, the most effective remedy is to restore a healthy tone to the life-blood of so? ciety?paternal, just, generous government. All history sustains our views. That thor? ough student of history, Sir Walter Scott, who interwove the charms of his fiction with such profound and sagacious reflections on society, morals and government, speaking, in one of his works, ("Anne of Geierstein,") of the Veh miquo institution, the celebrated secret and in? quisitorial association, which, in the fifteenth century, spread over Germany, makes the fol? lowing philosophic observations, which apply with striking and pungent force to the present times: "Such ah. institution," says that great man, "could only prevail at a time when ordi? nary means of justice were excluded by the hand of power, and when, in order to bring the guilty to punishment, it required all the influence and authority of such a confederacy. In no other country than one exposed to every species of feu? dal tyranny, and deprived of every ordinary mode of abtaining justice or redress, could such a system have taken root and flourished !" It Rotts in the Family.?It is interesting to observe how characteristic traits are some? times inherited from one's forefather's; how peculiar gifts and talents appear to be handed down from father to son for generation after generation, i In Massachusetts the Adams family have oc? cupied a conspicuous place in public affairs from the birth of our national independence up to the present day. In the public lives of John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams, and John Quincy Adams the younger, their fellow countrymen have seen exhibited in a direct line, through four gener? ations,' qualities of statesmanship that have commanded respect and admiration. So also, in our own State, the Asters, and in Rhode Is? land, the members of at least two distinguished families, have shown that peculiar talents for the acquisition and accumulation of wealth can be transmitted from father to son. A still more striking instance of the heredit? ary transmission of characteristics is shown in the family of our gifted President, which af? fords the inspiriting spectacle of the represen? tatives of three generations in a direct line all holding Federal offices at the same time, and all exhibiting in the management of their pri? vate pecuniary interests a degree of 'cuteness which would do honor to the most distinguished operators of Chatham or Wall street. The ven? erable Jesse, though far advanced into the sere and yellow leaf, has recently announced his determination not to give up the Covington Post Office, at the same time volunteering the cheerful information that he felt now as if he could make more money than he ever did be? fore in all his life. Our gifted Useless, while filling an office that impoverished General Jackson, nas, in a little more than two years, become the possessor of great wealth. And now the youthful heir apparent of the Presi? dent, Master Frederick, on receiving his com? mission as a Second Lieutenant in the army, instead of rushing from his prolonged and te? dious studies at West Point into a course of friv? olous amusements and vain recreations, has procured what is doubtless a lucrative engage? ment witli a railroad company as a civil en? gineer, while continuing nominally in the ser? vice of the government. By a late army order there is given to this hopeful son of the great gift-taker three more months leave of absence than is granted to any other graduate of West Point this year, in or? der to enable him to hold his civil appoint? ment ; and as in addition to the salary he re? ceives from the railroad company his pay as an army officer continues all the while, the young gentleman gives evidence at his very start in life that he is not likely to reflect dis? credit on the reputation for thrift which his im? mediate ancestors have so brilliantly achieved. ?JYcw York Sun. ? One of the finest qualities in a human being is that nice sense of delicacy which ren? ders it impossible for him to be an intruder or a bore. ? A loving heart and a pleasant counten? ance are commodities which a man should nev? er fail to take home with him. ? Wc won't, believe anything wc hear of a lady's kiss unless wc have it from her own mouth. March of the Deathless Bead. BY FATHER S.JAH. ? She following beaotlfpl poem vas recited at the close of the funeral observances, at Savan? nah, Georgia, recently, bh the occasion or the reinterment of the Confederate soldiers who foil at Gettysburg: Gather the sacred dust Of the warriors tried and true. Who "bore the flag of our Nation's trust, And tell in the cause, though Lost, still Just, And died for me and you. Gather them one and all! From the Private to the Chief, Come they from hovel or princely hall They fell for us, and for them should fall The tears of a Nation's griefc Gather the corpses strewn O'er many a battle-plain; From many a grave that lies so lone, Without a name and without a stone,, Gather the Southern slain. We care not whence they came, Dear is their lifeless clay 1 Whether unknown, or known, to fame Their cause and country still the same? They died?and wore the Gray. Wherever the bravo havo died, They should not rest apart; Living they struggled side by side? Why should the hand of Death divido A single heart from heart f Gather their scattered clay, Wherever it may rest; Just as they marched to the bloody fray; Just as thoy fell on'the battle-day; Bury them breast to broast. The foeman need not dread This gathering of the brave ; Withoutsword or flag, with soundless tread, We muster once more onr deathless dead Out of each lonely grave. The foeman need not frown, They are all powerless now? Wc gathor|them here, and wc lay thorn down, And tears and prayers are the only crown Wo bring, to wreatho each brow. And the dead thus meet tho dead, While th? living o'er them weep; And tho men whom Lee and Stonewall led, And the hearts that ohco together bled, Together still shall sleep. Another Step toward Despotism.?The elections took place in the great States of Ohio and Pennsylvania on Tuesday. General Grant waited twenty-four or thirty-six hours to learn the results of them, and then issued a procla? mation which violates the Constitution of the United States. (We do not charge him with perjury, for the reason that the tcienter is lack? ing. He does not know what the Constitution is, nor when he does violate it.) He has inva? ded a State in defiance of that provision of the Constitution which makes it his duty to await the call of the local authorities before using the Federal power in any State. He has ordered the citizens of South Carolina to surrender their amis to his tools, thus trampling under foot article XVth of the amendments to the Constitution, which provides that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." He has as much right to disarm all the military companies in Virginia, and to com? pel each man of them to deliver his arms to Underwood's subordinates, as he had to place the people of South Carolina at the mercy of the negroes; for, of course, the negroes will be allowed to keep their arms. If Grant chooses, he can be President for life, or king, or emperor, or whatever he would like to be. The Northern people were utterly demoralized by the war. They never knew much about constitutions and laws, and even the little they once knew they seem to have forgotten. They gave the Repabl i cans a new lease of power in two great States on Tuesday last, and Grant takes this fact as evidence that the people of those States, and of the North generally, approve of the usurpations of Con? gress, ana wish them to enforce the unconsti? tutional laws passed by that body. He cannot be charged with having acted without that sort of warrant which justified Napoleon in his usurpations. The v eople c on sen t by their votes to their own degradation; to the destruction of the Constitution; to the rooting out Of liberty and the defense of liberty; to rae establish? ment of a military despotism. Ober know, of course, no better than the French did what they are doing; hut. that makes no difference Napoleon KatJ nis warrant yrrant has his.? Let us see if the latter has the pluck to benefit by his.?Rickmond Dispatch. - t? .'m k ?u /. . . Intensely Radical.?In the canvass now progressing in Virginia, the question of repudi? ation comes in for a share of discussion; and it is at least amusing to read the theories and arguments advanced by some of the supporters of repudiation. The following circular is pub? lished in the Staun to u Spectator by Ahithophel Smith, a candidate for the House of Delegates. The fact that it is published seriously and in good faith, renders it the more absurd: "I respectfully announce myself a candidate for the Legislature?say the House of Dele? gates. As to my political principles, I presume it don't matter whether I am Conservative or Radical, and I shall say nothing on that sub? ject. The only question of interest now-?-days is repudiation, and upon that I am right I see that some of the candidates in Rockingham are for repudiating the State debt. So far so good. A candidate in Highland goes for repudiating all debts, public and private, contracted before April 10th, 1865. That is a step further in the right direction. But neither the Rockingham lawyer nor the Highland doctor has quite come up to the mark yet. They are on the way, however, and I hail them as fellow-workers. My doctrine is repudiate all debts, and divide out the property. Here is my neighbor Major Jones, who owns five hundred acres of good land, worth $25,000, who don't want to pay his debts (amounting to $500) and grumbles heavi? ly about the taxes. Well, now is it right and fair that neighbor Jones shall be relieved of his debts and taxes and hold on to all his land ? I say it ain't; because when the law relieves one it ought to relieve all. I have uo debts to be abolished, and I want a little farm badly. If elected, I promise to carry out my principles ?universal repudiation down to the latest pos? sible moment, (none of your 10th of April, 1865) an equal division of property, and an even start for us all. There arc of" course no constitutional difficulties in the way. The peo j>lc who hold property to any amount wortli speaking of, are a small minority, and if all th? other sort vote for me I shall certainly bo elected. Those like me, who own no debts and hold no property, don't care a straw about re? pudiation or taxes unless in the new shufllc wc can come in for something." ? A census laker out West reports eight thousand colonels in his district. "There used to be more in that part of thecountrv," he says, "but a large number of them have been raised to generals." ? To flatter persons adroitly one must know three things?what they are, what they think they are, and what they want other people to think they arc. A Story and Sum for the Boys. A great while ago there lived a king who governed a great empire, and he was greatly beloved by his subjects.. Just before be died, he sent for an old philosopher who had often given him good advice, and requested him to Be as good a friend to his son as he had always proved to hire. The promise was freely made, and the old king died in peace. The son as? cended the throne, but he soon got vain and proud. He became tyranical and impetuous, and wasted his estate in voluptuous pleasures. The young king's wife was, however, a most excellent woman, and much beloved through? out the Empire. The old philosopher sent for him one day, and told him he desired to teach him the game of chess, which he had just in Vented. The young king consented, and after several trials became very much interested. He asked the old man what made him ever think of such a game. The philosoper replied : "My son, I was thinking about your king? dom, and how easily it could be lost, if your subjects were to combine against you. In this game the king has but little power of his own, and if not protected and guarded by his duti? ful subjects, is soon checkmated. His queen will of course sustain him whether right or wrong, and has great influence and power in the State. The castles represent your wealthy and powerful subjects, who have large estates, and control many serfs, and who live in houses of stone, protected by towers and fortresses.? They constitute a formidable power if they combine against you. The knights represent the chivalry of your kingdom. They do battle on horse, and their movements, though irregu? lar, are exceedingly dangerous to their foes. The bishops are the church. This is not a war? like portion of your subjects, but when it moves on its peculiar line it is a terrible foe.? Last of all, my son, are the pawns. Singly they have but little power, but as supporters and defenders they constitute the strength of a government. These are your humble subjects, the poor men, who fight your battles, and whose labor and toil provides your food and clothing. Oh, King! if you would not be checkmated and lose your kingdom, you must gain the friendship of all these." The young king took the admonition and the lesson to heart, and resolved to change his course. He soon recovered the love and confi? dence of his people, and was so grateful to the philosopher that he sent for him and said he wished to make him some magnificent present. This was at once declined. They then played a game of chess together for the following wager: If the king lost, he was to give the philosopher one grain of corn for the first square of the chess board, two grains for the second, four grains for the third, eight grains for the fourth, and so on, doubling for each square through the whole sixty-four. The king laughed at the insignificance of the wager. The philosopher won the game, and then told the king that if he had a thousand worlds, and in each world there was a thousand kingdoms, and in each kingdom a thousand provinces, and in each province a thousand granaries, and in each granary a thousand bushels of corn, it all would not be half enough to pay the debt. Now my young friends, will you please to tell us how many bushels it would take to pay the wager, counting one thousand grains to each ear of corn, and one hundred ears to the bushel ? A Brave Man. Marshal McMahon, Duke of Magenta, has just done what no other officer in all France cared or dared to do; he has fully, freely and frankly vindicated the henor of Napoleon HI. The world knew before that McMahon was heroic; to-day he is regarded as the most chiv? alrous man in Europe. What Ducrot failed to do; what the newspapers failed to do, McMa? hon has done in his blunt soldierly way.? American readers have not forgotten yet the peculiar features of that unaccountable cam? paign which culminated at Sedan, and which cost the Emperor his empire and his throne. He alone of all men received the blame, and went away into exile, preserving a silence which, while it was sorrowful and dignified, in no manner seemed to seek other victims than himself upon which to cast the temUe respon? sibilities of the overthrow. Some pity might have still remained in French hearts, even then if the truth had been known, and if the true relations between Napoleon aud his army had been understood by the people. Gen. Wimpnen. the signer of the terms of capitulation, should certainly have known better when he declared that the Emperor prevented a sortie which might have preserved the bulk of the army, and commanded an unconditional surrender. McMahon, however, tells the whole truth.? In his testimony before the committee on the conduct of the war, he declares on his oath that he alone is responsible to the country for the march from Chalons to Sedan; that by his orders alone the army marched; that the Em? peror in no way whatever interfered with his plans, or those of the other commanders ; that from the first he, McMahon, had been left free to manage the army in his own way?the most the Emperor ever attempting to do consisted of suggestions and recommendations; that he al? ways received the Emperor's cordial support; and that during his entire connection with the army he was actuated by but one motive?that of devotion to France at the sacrifice of every? thing else?his throne, his family, the hopes of his dynasty, and his own personal safety. The Marshal continues by saying that his army de? ceived him. He thought it could make eigh? teen miles a day, while it only made ten, and that to this cause alone should the disaster be attributed. Had it beeu otherwise, mid had he succeeded in obtaining such marching results as he had a right to expect, a junction would have been made with iiazaine and the issue might have been different. This statement of McMahon has made a pro? found impression in France. It was at first at? tempted to suppress its full force by the com? plete silence of the newspapers ; but the army took it up and cast it forth broadcast, comment? ing upon it in every garrison, and expressing open and undisguised sympathy for the fallen Emperor. Especially was this the case in the ranks of the Imperial Guard, who toasted Mc? Mahon for his generosity, and declared with more emphasis than discretion that one empire was better than forty republics. Certainly the Marshal has done the Bonaparte family no harm by this frank avowal of his, and has greatly in? creased the admiration of all for his owu hon? orable and unselfish course. ? On a recent declamation day in a New Jersey school, a promising young idea shot off the subjoined: "Our yaller hen has broke her leg. O, never more she'll lay an egg; the brindlc cow has gone plum dry, and sister Sal has cat the pie ; this arth is full of sin and sor? row ; we're born to-day and die to-morrow." ? A French traveler in this country, says : "Dere is a drink called 'dc same,' which is very much like in America. One man asks for Kourhnn, several says, 'Give me Vfe same.'? Due man asks for brandy; several says,'Give me <lc same! Dc iame! is one very grand drink iu America." Choosing Husbands. "When a girl marries, why do people talk o? her choice? In ninety-nine cases out of * hundred, has she aqy choice? Does not the man (probably'theTast she would haVe^cbofeen) select her?" A very clever correspondent has sent <ue a letter containing, this query, and she mak^s ?.yt her case ably. She says, "I have been married many years; the match was considered a very good one, suitable in every respect?age, posi? tion and fortune. Every one said I had made a good choice. Why, my dear Mr. Editor, 1 loved ray husband when I married him because he had by unwearied assiduity succeeded in gainiug my affections; but had choice been my privilege I certainly should not have chosen him. As I look at him in his easy chair, ft huge dog at his feet, a pipe peeping out of one of the many pockets of his shooting coat, lean but think how different he is from what I would have chosen. My first penchant was for a fash? ionable clergyman?a perfect Adonis. He was a flatterer, and he cared but little for me, though I have not yet forgotten the pang of his desertion. My next was a barrister?a young man of immense talent, smooth, insinuating manners; but he, too, after talking, walking, dancing and flirting, left me in the lurch.? Either of these would have been my "choice," had I so chosen ; but my present husband chose me, and therefore I married him; and this, I cannot help thinking, mast be the way with half the married folks of my acquaintance." There is both sound sense and truth in this; but is it not better thatmen should choose than that they should be chosen ? And is not our correspondent probably much happier with her present husband, shooting jacket, pipe and dog, inclusive, than she would have been with either the fashionable clergyman or the clever barris? ter ? Men are proverbially inconstant, and after marriage, when the trouble and in? convenience of children are beginning to be felt, and when (the most trying time of all) the wife begins to neglect her husband for het children, unless there was originally a very strong attachment on the husband's side, there is little chance of happiness. A wife's affec? tion, on the contrary, always increases after marriage; and even if she were indifferent be? fore, no well-disposed woman can help loving the father of her children. Children on her side are a bond of union, and though she may appear for them to neglect some of those little attentions which men naturally seem to expect, it is only because the child is the more helpless being of the two, and the true woman always takes the side of those who are most feeble. It is a strange but melancholy fact that when young girls fancy themselves in love they are seldom, if ever, happy if they marry the object of their choice. The fact is in most cases they find the husband they have chosen quite a dif? ferent person as an individual from the imagin? ary object he had appeared as a lover. ? The imagination in most girls is stronger than the judgment, and as soon as the first idea of love is awakened in a female heart the imagination is'Set to work to' fancy a lover, and all possible and impossible perfections are assembled to? gether in the young girl's mind to endow the object of her secret idolatry. The first man whose appearance and manners attract a girl on her entrance into society is generally inves? ted by her with the halo of these secret thoughts, and she fancies herself violently in love with? out the least real knowledge of the man she 'supposes herself in love with. No wonder, then, that if she marries she is miserable The object of her love has vanished, never to re? turn, and she finds herself chained for life to a man she detects, .because she fancies she has j been deceived jn^uni. On the other hand, the man who, with very pardonable vanity, fancied himself loved for his owa merits, and. who was perfectly uncon? scious of the secret delusions ef the girl, be? comes, when he finds her changed after mar? riage, quite indignant at her caprice. The friends and relations on both sides share in the same feelings?"what would she have ?" they cry; "she married for love, and see the conse? quences." The consequences are, indeed, in such cases, generally sad enough. When the first delusion is dissipated, and the truth, in all its hard and stern reality, comes forth from the veil that has been thrown around it, both parties feel indig? nant at the false position in which they find themselves. Mutual recriminations take place, each accusing the other of deceit and ingrati? tude ; while the apparent injustice of these ac ! cusations, which is felt by each party alternate? ly,'first wounds the feelings, and then,'if re? peated, rankles in the wound until it becomes incurable?Baltimore SttnJ The Growing Cotton Crop.?The official report from the agricultural bureau says: "The cotton returns of October are no more favorable than those Of the preceding months. In no State is the average of September fully sustained. The general average of condition in the first week of the present month is sev? enty-six per cent., against eighty per cent, in September. In some sections in the Mississip? pi Valley and in Texas, improved prospects are reported, while the preponderance of tes? timony in the Southwest as well as on the At? lantic coast, favors a further reduction of the expected yield. The percentage of condition in the several States is as follows: North Caro? lina 80, South Carolina 75, Georgia 72, Florida 73, Alabama 70, Mississippi 76, Louisiana 78, Texas 72, Arkansas 82, Tennessee 94. The in? juries reported are from rust, shedding of bolls prematurely, sufficiently low temperature to check development of bolls in the more north? ern latitudes, floods and inundations in Florida and Georgia, sprouting or rotting of bolls from rains, droughts in the section west of Geoi]gia. and the boil and army worms of Mississippi and the more western States. It does not ap? pear that the lasses from insects are general or very serious, with a few.isolated exceptions.? Drought should be credited with a larger por? tion of the depreciation than any other as? signed cause, notwithstanding the fact that cot? ton endures lack of moisture better than other crops. Present indications do not point to a crop of more than three millionc of bales. If the remaining season should be unfavorable for the development and gathering of the fibre, a still lower result, must be accepted. ? James Brooks writes from abroad: "The English language, I see?and the more I see the better I sec it?is becoming the uuiversal language of the educated world. Twenty or twenty-live years ago, or less, only French would" cany you through the world ; but now it is impossible to go anywhere, from the pyra? mids of Egypt to the mountains of Japan, that English will not pretty well carry you along. Chinese house servants, more or less, speat English?'pigeon English,' as it is called?but nevertheless, comprehensible English ; and go whore you will, in whatever society, English seems to be the tougue." ? An honest country parson, who, in the time of a great drouth, was desired to pray for rain, answered ; "1 will willingly do it to oblige yon. but it is to no purpose while the wind ?s in this quarter."